Lt. gov. candidate owes more than first thought

11:03 PM,
Nov. 26, 2013

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The unpaid tax bill for North Avondale's Eric Kearney grew on Tuesday, although the campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald could not indicate exactly how much the would-be lieutenant governor owed Ohio and the federal government.

Kearney says the unpaid taxes, somewhere in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars, stem from troubles with his family business. Kearney and his wife are owners of Sesh Communications, which publishes the Cincinnati Herald, an African-American newspaper.

Cincinnati.com first reported that Kearney's company, also known as ...